The English ConstitutionH. S. King & Company, 1872 - 291 páginas A classic study of the British constitution, paying special attention to how Parliament and the monarchy work. The author frequently draws comparisons with the American Constitution, being generally critical of the American system of government. |
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Página vii
... politics . It is commonly said that " there is not a brick of the Palmerston House standing . " The change since 1865 is a change not in one point but in a thousand points ; it is a change not of particular details but of pervading ...
... politics . It is commonly said that " there is not a brick of the Palmerston House standing . " The change since 1865 is a change not in one point but in a thousand points ; it is a change not of particular details but of pervading ...
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... politics . There has been a change of the sort which , above all , generates other changes -- a change of generation . Gene- rally one generation in politics succeeds another almost silently ; at every moment men of all ages between ...
... politics . There has been a change of the sort which , above all , generates other changes -- a change of generation . Gene- rally one generation in politics succeeds another almost silently ; at every moment men of all ages between ...
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... politicians were men who might well have been Lord Palmerston's grandchildren . He came into Parliament in 1806 ... politics is more surely changed by a change of generation in the men than by any other change whatever . Even if ...
... politicians were men who might well have been Lord Palmerston's grandchildren . He came into Parliament in 1806 ... politics is more surely changed by a change of generation in the men than by any other change whatever . Even if ...
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... political country is like an American forest : you have only to cut down the old trees , and immediately new trees come up to replace them ; the seeds were waiting in the ground , and they began to grow as soon as the withdrawal of the ...
... political country is like an American forest : you have only to cut down the old trees , and immediately new trees come up to replace them ; the seeds were waiting in the ground , and they began to grow as soon as the withdrawal of the ...
Página xvii
... political campaign . It is by that programme , by a comparison of the programmes of different statesmen , that the world forms its judgment . The common ordinary mind is quite unfit to fix for itself what political question it shall ...
... political campaign . It is by that programme , by a comparison of the programmes of different statesmen , that the world forms its judgment . The common ordinary mind is quite unfit to fix for itself what political question it shall ...
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